Brush-holder



(No Model.)

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Brush Holder.

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BRUSH-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Iletters Patent No. 239 660 Application filed January 31, 1881. (No model.)

may concern Be it known that I, HIRAM H. HURLBURT, of Bennington, Bennington county, Vermont, have invented certain Improvements in Brush- Holders, of which the following description, in connection with accompanying single sheet of drawings, constitutes a specification.

This invention venient means whereby one or more brushes, such as ordinary paint brushes, whitewash or calcimine brushes, 850., may be attached securely to along handle, so that such brushes may be used on roofs, floors, 850., withoutcompelling the operator to stoop to his work, or on high walls and ceilings without employing ladders or scaffolding. It is fully illustrated in the drawings, wherein Figure 1 shows a side elevation of my device 5 Fig. 2, a top view thereof, and Fig. 3 a top view of a modification thereof.

My device is adapted to be attached to a usually of about the length of an ordinary hoe or broom handle; and it consists of a cross-head, upon which are mounted the devices for clamping the brush or brushes thereto, and to which a shank with socket or tang is attached, whereby the whole may be connected with the handle.

. The cross-head above mentioned consists of metallic plate, either cast or bent into about the form shown at A, E, and I in the several figures. It consists of a fiat plate of a length sufticien t to support or gripe the desired number of brushes, and of sufficient thickness and strength to resist any strain put upon it by the clamp-bolts without yielding front edge, I, turned up at right angles to the main web to the extent, perhaps, of one-fourth of an inch in height. The top edge of this front ledge, I, is sharply serrated,as at a a a, Fig. 2, throughout its entire length. The back edge of said plateA is similarly turned up, so as to form the ledge J J. This ledge also has two ormore projections, E E, which are integral for thereception ofthe clamp-bolts D D. Each of these bolts has a T-head, B, across its upper end, and beneath the plate A a thumbscrew, 0 G. The clamp-bolt is susceptible of rotation in its hole in used in two positions with the Thea-d adjusted across the handles of separate long-handled brushes, as in Fig. 2,0r in a position transverse to cross-head A, as in Fig. 3. When used in this position rests on the top of projection E, and the opposite arm of the Tfinds bearing against the upper side of the brush-head G, as in Fig. 3. The under side of the T-head may be rougheli'ectual hold upon the same.

In practice one clamp-bolt may confine two ordinary pain t-brushes, and the apparatus may be constructed to hold two, three, four, or more separate brushes of the kind, as may be desired. For more effectually maintaining their hold on the brush-handle, and to prevent their getting out of adjustment in relation to each other, the cross-heads or Ts of the clamp-bolts are. made with a shaped tongue and slot, as seen at c, Fig. 2; but this feature is not absolutely essential to prevent relative disarrangement of the crossheads, and is useful only when the cross-heads dles. When the Ts are set the other way,or so that the T-head lies at right angles with the ledges or jaws of the main crosshead, the provisions of tongue and slot o are useless.

lows: Having inserted a handle in the socket of shank H, the clamp-bolts are loosened. If brushes of the paint-brush style are to be used, the clamp-bolts are turned so that their T- heads shall stand parallel with the jaws I and J. The brush-handles G G G are then inserted under the T-heads of clamp-bolts D D and in position to lie across the serrated J. When so adjusted in position the thumb-nuts tightly, whereby the brush-handles are firmly clamped between the jaws I and J and crossheads B B of the clamp-bolts.

If it is desired to use a whitewash or calcijacentto said projections, is similarly serrated, as indicated at a a a. The web of the plate A is perforated opposite the projections E E plate A, and may be 5 one arm of the T-headB 6o ened where it engages the brush-head, for more 6 ordinary paint-brush are disposed transversely with the brush-han- So The method of using my invention is as folserrated 0 O O are screwed up 5 mine brush with this holder, it is only ncces I00 ii a - purposes.

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structed with two upwardly-projecting parallel ledges, the front one of which constitutes "one jaw of the system of clamping devices, and the back one of which has one or more elevated projections, which serve as a support for one arm of the T-head of the clamping-bolt, the flanking portions of such ledge on either side of such elevated projections constituting another jaw of said system, and provided with a shank for the attachment of a handle, in combination with a T-headed rotating clampingbolt adapted to co-operate therewith, substantially in the manner purposes set forth.

3. The provisions shown whereby the apparatus may be converted from a clamp or holder for brushes the handles whereof stand vertically or athwart the jaws of the main cross-head to one where the brush-head lies parallel with the front clamping-jaw of the cross-head, consisting; of the T-headed rotating clamping-bolt and nut B O D and projection E of jaw J, substantially as described and set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name, atBennington,Vermont, this 24th day January, 1881.

HIRAM H. HURLBURT.

sary to loosen the bolts and turn heads B B the other way, so that one end of the head 0 may rest or bear on top of projection E and its opposite end upon the head G of the brush, Fig. 3. In this way the brush-head is confined between jaw l and clamping-head B and by tightening nuts 0 G the brush is firmly clamped ready for use.

Thus it will be seen that the clamp-bolts may be used in two distinct ways for holding two differentkinds ofbrushes, which ordinarily could not be confined or successfully held by any of the existing appliances used for such For" light work the jaws l and J need not be serrated.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent- 1. Abrush-holder consisting of an inflexible head provided with two upwardly-projecting parallel jaws, either smooth or serrated, upon or across the upturned edges of whichthe handles of the brushes are clamped, and a handle for manipulating the same, in combination with a T-headed clamping-bolt capable of adjustment with reference to the head both longitudinally and transversely, the whole being constructed and arranged to operate substantially in the manner described, and for the Witnesses FRANKLIN Soon,

2. A brush-holder consisting of a head coni KATE L. HURLBURT.

described, and for the 

